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Released
1987 · FILM

Nadine

The cops want her. The killers want him. They want a divorce. Ain't love grand!

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
83 min
ComedyMysteryRomance

Synopsis

Hairdresser Nadine Hightower seeks to recover provocative photographs she previously posed for; during a visit to the photographer’s office, the photographer is killed by an intruder. Nadine persuades her estranged husband Vernon to accompany her back to the office, where they discover documents related to an illicit construction scheme. When Vernon attempts to profit from the papers, both he and Nadine are chased by armed thugs.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sam O SteenShot by Nestor AlmendrosScored by Howard ShoreDesigned by Paul Sylbert

Box Office

1987 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.7M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$5.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.2M 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.1M55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 760 theaters

Also known as

  • Nadine - Eine kugelsichere Liebede

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